*Develop
the skill to really look at another and try to feel their perspective
or gage what they like and feel about things.

Don't
talk at someone to hear yourself. To hear how clever you are or how
meaningful you are or how understanding you are, and when the other
person talks don't relate what they say only to yourself. This
creates meaningless talking, just speaking out loud to yourself. You
are just reverberating yourself at someone else, and it's
childlike/Immature to only believe you are the most important person
and that everything someone says relates to you or has to relate to
you so that you can be compassionate and understanding.

It is
immature to have people serve you in this way and it is boring for
others too.

Life is
so much greater and richer if you please others how they want to be
pleased, not by how you think they want to be pleased, that's lazy,
and selfish; to just steal another's energy because they are
giving/pleasing you all the time, or because you can't be bothered
listening to them or reading their energy and facial expressions/body
language and not allowing their perspective to add to your own, or
enlighten you; you loose that richness of shared experiences.

You have
to listen with open ears, not 'tit for tat', not how you feel
personally about what they said, or understand them only because you
had a similar story, ….kids do that.

True
listening and Care and Compassion is in allowing someone to tell you
their story and sharing how they feel with you. If you do this, the
rewards are great, you no longer get upset, emotional, or offended
because you aren't personally relating, you stand to truly help
someone, you gain unconditional love from feeling others and
recognising others have feelings, so your not treating others like
objects, you most likely won't get a serious illness, because
hardness, coldness, and negative emotions, lower your immune system
and damages your nervous system, and you will end up having far more
intimate and rewarding relationships and a far more enjoyable life.

'Your work is a reflection and action
of who you are. If you love what you do, your entire being exists in
that state of love. That love is then what you offer the world
through your work and actions'.

(Moira Bush - Angel Cards)

My Art is a
Celebration of Colour, Animals, and .. Weirdness.. and the Awe and
Feelings that these combined evoke.

Animals are a
subject close to my heart (vegan) and my passion; And the freedom of
drip painting as well as combining strange Surrealism concepts using
Vibrant Colour is a complete expression from my soul.

My name is Helen
Leigh born and raised in the Garden City of - Christchurch, New
Zealand.

I am a self taught Artist, Aphorist and
Poet, and have traversed, tried, failed and indifferent-ed :) all
genres of Art and Writing over the past 14 years; in learning what
was the best expression of me.

And after all my research, It was a
completely un-researched accident that ended up being my primary
'Drift' or style of art which is what I later learned is called
'Drip' or Splatter Painting.

It took me the past 5 years to refine
my style and to figure out exactly what I was doing. I developed my
style after a Friend saw that I had spilled water on one of my
coloured sheets of card and that it had made a kind of Rainbow bleed
of drips of colour and said to me that it would be great to make
paintings like this and I was instantly excited by the idea, so I set
to re-create it..

This then culminated into incorporating
my passion for Animals (veganism) as my primary subject matter; a
subject that I found was a great expression of my feelings... I also
took some cues from graffiti and other surrealsits & the
Psychedelic 70's style or art, philosophies and music..

HOW DID I GET HERE?? ..WHY I WRITE AND
PAINT...

After struggling with Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome for past 10 years and in particular, the past 5 years having
been practically immobilised by it, I started to look within; and
with the help of my Shaman friend, I began to work on myself and my
environment and find ways to improve both; and my health.. Every time
I realised something and changed it, I got a little better, so I
began to write or draw these realisations down. I Started with Chalk
Pastels and Graphic Art as mediums to create images and Symbols to
remind myself of my learning as well as my Poetry and Aphorisms to
record my feelings and my gained wisdom... All my creative outlets
became just that - Outlets, a way to express myself, and to create
extensions of myself that I could share.

It was best put by Moira Bush on her
series of Angel Cards:

'Your work is a reflection and action
of who you are. If you love what you do, your entire being exists in
that state of love. That love is then what you offer the world
through your work and actions'. (as written above)

So my 'Work' and Life became Art and I
developed my own style and created an online gallery.

My goal will always remain the same..
Which is that I simply wish to create beauty and meaning and hare
it. The added bonus is that mostly I stop and look at what I have
painted or written and realise that I have in fact been shared
with!...(from a higher source) And that feeling is so compelling,
completely amazing, and really addictive..